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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
May. 17, 2011
Satish Kumar Bhrugumalla, Fremont, CA (US);
Simon Kershaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Satish Kumar Bhrugumalla, Fremont, CA (US);
Simon Kershaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Aptina Imaging Corporation, George Town, KY;
Abstract
An imaging system may include a multi-channel image sensor. In a multi-channel image sensor, multiple image streams from a common pixel array may be provided to a common interface transport for output on multiple logic channels. Image streams may include high-definition (HD) video and snapshot image data. Video image data may be resized using resize circuitry on the image sensors. Snapshot image data may be processed by the image sensor. Full-resolution portions of snapshot images may be output concurrently with resized HD video image data on multiple logic channels to an image signal processor. In an alternative embodiment, stack memory on the image sensor may be used to store full-resolution snapshot image data. Full-resolution snapshot image data may then be output concurrently with resized HD video image data at a slower data rate than the video image data.